Nut-cracker



(No Model.)

H. M. QUACKENBUSH.

NUT ORAGKER.

No. 404.016. Patented May 28, 1889.

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I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY MARCU S QUACKENBUSH, OF IIERKIMER, NE? YORK.

NUT-CRACKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,016, dated May 28, 1889.

Application filed November 19, 1888. Serial No. 291,230. (No model.)

To all wiwi'n it may concern: Be it known that I, HENRY MARCUS QUAOK- ENBUSH, of Herkimer, in the county of Herkimer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nut- Orackers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to nut-crackers; and it consists in an implement of this class comprising two levers suitably jointed or pivotally connected at one end and of substantially cylindrical form in cross-section in the jaw portionsthat is to say, in those portions which hold the nut. By this construction I obviate a serious objection incident to existing forms of nut-crackers, the outward swell of the sides of the jaws away from the teeth or serrations preventing the finger and thumb of the user from being caught and pinched between the jaws.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved implement; Fig. 2, a cross-section thereof.

B B indicate two levers, each provided near one end with a series of alternating ridges, a, and depressions b, which afford the roughness necessary to insure proper hold upon the nut to be cracked, the serrated portions thus produced being commonly designated the jaws.

The levers B B are suitably jointed or pivotally connected at their jaw ends, advisably by means of a flat metal link, 0, seated in slots 0 in the ends of the levers, and connected with the levers by pins e, as shown in Fig. 1. As shown in Fig. 2, the jaw portions of the levers B are substantially cylindricalin crosssectio11that is to .say, they are of the form produced by slightly cutting away one face of a cylinder, as is done in producing the serrations-and as aconsequence of this peculiar form and the swelling or rounding of the jaws outward away from the serrations the fingers, or finger and thumb, bywhich the nut is held in placing it between the jaws are prevented from entering between the faces of the jaws or between said faces and the nut, as frequently occurs with nut-crackers in which the jaw-faces are widened out to the full width of the jaw portion of the lever.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A nut-cracker consisting of two levers connected at one end and of substantially cylindrical form in cross-section in the jaw portions, whereby the sides of the jaws are caused to project beyond the bearing-faces, and thus to guard the fingers against injury.

2. A nutcracker consisting of two levers jointed one to the other, each lever having a serrated jaw portion the serrated face of which is narrower than the body of the jaw, whereby the projecting sides of the jaws serve to hold the fingers away from the serrations.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY MARCUS QUA OKENBUSII.

WVitnesses:

J OHN KERsHAw, CHAS. H. BURRILL. 

